HR/Blastbeat talent-nurturing winners are Jack Morton and Axa

Global brand experience agency Jack Morton and healthcare company Axa PPP are the winners of HR magazine’s Blastbeat CSR competition.

HR Excellence Awards 2011: The shortlist for the Most People-Focused CEO

Who do employees rate as the best leaders of their organisations? HR magazine reveals the shortlist for the Most People-Focused CEO in this year’s HR Excellence Awards.

EMI Music: the HR perspective

Private equity firm Terra Firma bought music giant EMI Music in late 2007, amid severely declining retail conditions and much scepticism about any chance of a successful turnaround.

Fine and Dando

Stephen Dando (pictured), chief HR officer at news and financial information conglomerate Thomson Reuters, wants to move on.

The shortlist for HR director of the year 2011

The 10 HR directors on our shortlist for this year’s HR Excellence Awards HR director of the year have risen to the challenges thrown at them over the past 12 months.

Interview with Jill Shedden, people director at Centrica Energy

Jill Shedden has been appointed group HR director for Centrica. She takes on her new role in July, but HR magazine caught up with Shedden in December.

Exclusive report: The impact of an age of austerity on HR departments

HR directors are aware of the importance of their strategic role as austerity measures take hold – but admit employees have lost trust in the HR function as a result.

Interview with Caroline lucas, leader of the Green Party

When Lord Davies finally delivered his much-anticipated recommendations about how to increase female representation on British boards, many (male) business leaders, fearing tough new quotas, will have...

The business issues that keep me up at night

I come from a family of world-class insomniacs. It’s a condition commonly found among supporters of Arsenal Football Club, so I am no stranger to sleepless nights.

HR v Marketing

Forget Noel, Angelina and Brad: let’s hear it for Paul Gallagher, James Jolie and Julie Pitt. Placed beside marketing, HR feels like the less famous sibling. Marketing is sexier, more famous, more...

If HR doesn't add value, business will wrest control of the people agenda from HR

The role of chief human resource officer is being filled with people from marketing, operations or corporate law, if you are to believe a report by global executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles.

Interview with Darren Hockaday, HR director of London Overground

Perhaps it was a childhood spent watching Ivor the Engine or just the love of seeing new places, but I have always rather enjoyed train journeys. So the opportunity to travel in the driver’s cab to...